SelectPdf.Universal.Linux 26.5.0

SelectPdf Library for .NET on Linux x64 and Docker — HTML to PDF, Word to PDF, PDF editing

The SelectPdf PDF library for .NET on Linux x64 and in Docker: HTML to PDF rendered by Chromium (HTML5, CSS3, web fonts, JavaScript), Word to PDF, PDF creation and editing, redaction, digital signatures, PDF/A and PDF/UA.

This package has no code of its own. It installs SelectPdf.Universal together with the engine package SelectPdf.Universal.Native.linux-x64, for x64 servers and containers. For Linux ARM64, use SelectPdf.Universal.Linux.Arm64 instead. Reference only one of the two: both engine packages install into the same folder.

Installation

dotnet add package SelectPdf.Universal.Linux

Quick start

using SelectPdf.Universal;

HtmlToPdf converter = new HtmlToPdf();
using PdfDocument doc = converter.ConvertHtmlString("<h1>Hello from Linux</h1>");
doc.Save("hello.pdf");

Without a license key the library runs in evaluation mode and draws a "Demo Version" banner on every page. Set GlobalProperties.LicenseKey to your key before the first conversion.

Docker

The engine package bundles the Chromium libraries, so the image needs no apt-get lines:

FROM mcr.microsoft.com/dotnet/sdk:10.0 AS build
WORKDIR /src
COPY . .
RUN dotnet publish -c Release -o /app

FROM mcr.microsoft.com/dotnet/aspnet:10.0
WORKDIR /app
COPY --from=build /app .
ENTRYPOINT ["dotnet", "YourApp.dll"]

Build and run it on an x64 host, or pass --platform linux/amd64 to docker build on another one.

Requirements

• .NET 10, .NET 9 or .NET 8. Verified with .NET 11 RC 1.
• Linux with glibc 2.30 or later (Debian 11+, Ubuntu 20.04+, RHEL 9+), which includes the official .NET images. On Alpine (musl), reference SelectPdf.Universal alone and convert through the remote engine (RenderingEngine.ChromiumRemote).
• Linux hosts and containers often have no fonts installed. The library has built-in fonts for Latin scripts; add SelectPdf.Universal.Fonts to render every language.

The same package exists for the other platforms: SelectPdf.Universal.Windows (Windows x64), SelectPdf.Universal.Linux.Arm64 (Linux ARM64), SelectPdf.Universal.MacOS (macOS on Apple Silicon). For several platforms in one project, reference SelectPdf.Universal and pick the SelectPdf.Universal.Native.<rid> package per build.

The free SelectPdf.HtmlToPdf.Universal Community Edition converts HTML to PDF up to 5 pages per document, with one-package installs of its own (SelectPdf.HtmlToPdf.Linux).

Documentation & Support

• Documentation: https://selectpdf.com/pdf-library/
• Website: https://selectpdf.com/